So one of my clients configured one of their switches and the resulting configuration resulted in a duplex mismatch between the switch and a Linux host.
We have fixed the duplex mismatch, but is there an easy way to clear the error counters on the interface without restarting the system?
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn
inet addr:192.168.97.166 Bcast:192.168.97.167 Mask:255.255.255.252
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:630331763 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:676081436 errors:1971815 dropped:0 overruns:68637 carrier:1903180
collisions:7649984 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2067682611 (1.9 GiB) TX bytes:1942809411 (1.8 GiB)